NATO Foreign Ministers reproach Putin who does not come to negotiate with Ukraine in Türkiye
The NATO Foreign Ministers have reproached this Thursday to the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, who does not go to Istanbul in person to negotiate peace in Ukraine with the president of that country, Volodimir Zelenski.
“President Zelenski is here in Turkey,” he meets with the Turkish leader, Recep Tayip Erdogan – prepared to talk about peace, while Vladimir Putin has sent a low -level delegation just to gain time, “said Polish Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, upon his arrival at the informal meeting of outdoor holders of the Alliance in Antalia (Turkey). In this sense, he has trusted that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, “see this mockery as what the appropriate conclusions is and extract.”
In the same sense, the head of the Netherlands diplomacy, Caspar Veldkamp, for whom Putin’s refusal “makes it very clear where we need to put pressure to move towards peace.”
The Czech head, Jan Lipavsk, said Putin “is clearly scared of peace” and called him “cowardly” for not going to Istanbul. “Putin should have come. If you want peace, it should have come, so it is clear the message that Putin does not want to have peace,” he emphasized, like the Finnish holder, Elina Valtonen, who estimates that now “everyone has realized that there is only a part that is not willing to involve in serious peace negotiations, and that is Russia.”
His Norwegian counterpart, Espen Barth Eide, has assured that if Putin is not “prepared to give results, there will be more pressure, more sanctions and more consequences.” The head of the Lithuanian diplomacy, Kätstutis Budrys, has considered that Putin only seeks “distraction, deceive and delay any peace process.”
David Lammy, head of the British Foreign Office, highlighted the “low level” of the Russian delegation in Istanbul, while the Frenchman Jean-Noël Barrot has insisted that you have to have prepared “mass sanctions” to force Putin to get involved. The Letona Minister, Baiba Brae, has indicated that he does not see indications from Russia favorable to peace. Finally, the Italian minister, Antonion Tajani, said he wants to be optimistic, but does not know if Russia wants to achieve “that goal” of finishing the conflict and has claimed “more Russian involvement to achieve a stop first and peace later.” (EFE)
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